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'''Gerolamo Rovetta''' (November 30, 1851 - May 8, 1910) was an infamous Italian writer and playwrighter.
Born in [[Brescia]], Rovetta was the author of many novels and short stories as well of stage plays, mostly dramas. His first novel was ''Mater dolorosa'' (1882), a novel set in the world of the nobles that achieved a considerably popular success.<ref name=grr>{{cite book|author1=Peter Bondanella |author2=Julia Conway Bondanella |title=Cassell Dictionary Italian Literature|publisher=Continuum International Publishing Group, 2001|isbn=0304704644}}</ref> The late nineteenth century English novelist [[George Gissing]] read Rovetta's ''La Baraonda'' in Italian in November 1894, the year of its publication. After initially saying that he liked it, he concluded eventually that it was "not an original book" as it recalled "too strongly French and Russian novels".<ref>Coustillas, Pierre, ed. London and the Life of Literature in Late Victorian England: the Diary of George Gissing, Novelist. Brighton: Harvester Press, 1978, p.355.</ref>
He is also well known for the drama ''Romanticismo'', who's success was partly due to its patriotic content;<ref name=grr/> it was later adapted in [[Romanticismo (film)|a film with the same name]] directed by [[Clemente Fracassi]] and starred by [[Amedeo Nazzari]] and [[Clara Calamai]].<ref name="45-59">{{cite book|author1=Roberto Chiti |author2=Roberto Poppi |author3=Enrico Lancia |title=Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film|publisher=Gremese, 1991|isbn=8876055487}}</ref> In theatre ''Romanticismo'' and ''I disonesti'' found in [[Paola Pezzaglia]] an ideal interpreter.
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